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THE BOONVILLE ADVERTISER PRESENTS REVIEW OF 1923

Events of Past Twelve Months Gleaned

From 52 Issues of The Advertiser

General News, Weddings, Births and Deaths—Year Just Passed Saw Much

progress in Boonville and Cooper County

Believing that our readers would enjoy a review of the past year’s events, as told in their county paper, we herewith present a resume of the 52 issues of The Boonville Advertiser. Looking back over the year just passed into history, we find many things worthy of comment and of interest to our readers. Our county was favored with seasonable weather through all the year, no epidemic of disease threatened our people, progress in many lines was noticeable and a determination on the part of the majority to beat back to normal conditions was not without results. Agriculturally speaking, 1923 was a year of bountiful crops which sold at prices too low for the farmer to realize a fair return for his toil and investment. But it is cheering to note that the outlook for the future of American agriculture is rather reassuring. Hard times on the farm have forced a rigid application of the best of farm methods which will not be without gratifying results. Boonville as the county seat of a great county has made unusual progress. Steel work on the great free bridge across the Missouri River here promises to be completed in the spring or early summer; many new houses have been

erected during the past year, street improvements have gone forward, the removal of the offices for the division superintendent of the M. K. & T. Railroad to Boonville with the employment of a big force of men here and at New Franklin, has added to the town’s importance as a railroad center, six miles of hardsurfaced road leading into the town was completed, and on very hand are many signs of continued improvement.

JANUARY Hillcrest Addition to the City of Boonville approved by city ordnance. Col. John Cosgrove, attorney for Old Trails Bridge Co., instructed by Howard County Court to institute mandamus proceedings in Missouri Supreme Court to compel the state auditor to register $25,000 in bonds voted last summer by Franklin township as its share toward the construction of the Boonville free bridge. Breathitt Sappington and T.F. Marshal, of Marshall, take charge of Potter Hotel, Boonville. Fred Schuster, Pilot Grove, buys 40 acres from Mrs. Sallie Eichelberger Buchanan for $125 per acre. Boonville Development Co. declared dividend of 4 percent to its 100 stockholders. The company is capitalized at $51,000. Muril Potter buys interest of A.G. Bullock in “the Sweetest Place in Town.”

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W. L. Limbaugh succeeds A.L. Haun as chief clerk at Missouri Training School. Haun becomes deputy circuit clerk under Pat Sweeney. Mrs. T.A. Oglesby, Boonville, suffers stroke of paralysis. Lon Vest Stephens, 66, native of Boonville, and former governor of Missouri, dies at home in St. Louis. Christian Science Society of Boonville buys Mary E. Seats property on Spring street and plans to erect a modern church edifice. Jap Davis sells the Ben Schuster farm near Lamine, to Elmer Piatt for $24,000. Charter granted by the Federal Farm Loan Board to The Bankers Joint Stock Land Bank, Boonville, H.A. Creagan, President. W.J. Boschert organizes Farmers Bank at Bunceton. Missouri, Kansas Y Texas Railway announces it will spend $100,000 for improvements at Franklin Junction. J. W. Walker, Pleasant Green, tops St. Louis market with nineteen 1200-pound steers selling at $10.50 per cwt. Blackwater Farm Club buys J.C. Taylor’s poultry and produce business. Dascomb-Daniels Lumber Company, Kansas City, buys Klenk-Coulter yard at Boonville.

C.W. Journey appointed receiver in bankruptcy of Ben Shedle shoe stock, Boonville. Boonville Legion holds indoor carnival. New Franklin places contract for street lighting equipment.

Weddings Walter J. Stock and Mae Simpson, Boonville; George Odneal and Annie Baker, Prairie Home; Leonard Kemp and Lorene Meyer, Pilot Grove; Mr. Pittman, Elyria, Ohio, and Elnbra Rhoades, Boonville; Frank Zechmeister and Nellie Gorrell, Sedalia; Forest Johnson, Blackwater, and Lora Elizabeth Dickson, Napton.

Births Son to Mr. and Mrs. Ed R. Robinson, Boonville; son to Mr. and Mrs. Fenical, Lamine; son to Mr. and Mrs. Auburn Baker, Lamine; son to Mr. and Mrs. Lud Evans, Lamine; twin sons to Mr. and Mrs. E.L. Wright, Lamine; son to Mr. and Mrs. Speer Brandes; daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Gus Schuster, Lamine; son to Mr. and Mrs. Pearl McGuire, Boonville; daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Leo B. Schmidt, Boonville; son to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Korsen, Prairie Home; son to Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Short, Boonville; daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Emil B. Turner, Boonville; son to Capt. and Mrs. C. A. Clingenpeel; Boonville; son to Mr. And Mrs. H.W. Oerly, Overton; son to Mr. And Mrs. J.B. Settle, New Franklin; daughter to Dr. and Mrs. Chamberlain, New Franklin.

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Deaths John Morris, 58, Boonville; two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Urban Smith, near Pilot Grove; James Gray, 71, New Franklin; Kelly D., infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Brott, Boonville; R.S. Roe, 64, near Bell Air; Benjamin Eugene, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Vieth, Speed; J.W. Chrisman, Unionville; infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Auburn Baker, Lamine; Mrs. Julia Moore, Pilot Grove; Mrs. George Smith, 32, Pilot Grove; Norman, 7-year-old son of George Smith, Pilot Grove; Hilda, 4-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E.C. Stammerjohn, Boonville; Charles Newton Wilcoxen, 63, Boonville; V.S. Irvin, 36, Blackwater; Mrs. Katherine Debusman, 80, Boonville; Frank P. Dickson, 35, Kansas City; Mrs. James Mitchell, 83, Boonville; E.T. Ault, 70, Nelson; Miss Louise Ellen Carey, 62, near Speed; Thos. H. Muir, Gridley, Kan.; Mrs. Margaret Johnson, 31, Boonville; Chas. W. Oglesby, 60, near Mt. Nebo; Mrs. Harriet McClain, 82, Bunceton; G. A. Malone, 90, Mexico, Mo.; Mrs. Margaret Brandes, 83, near Lone Elm; H.N. Lee, Moberly.

FEBRUARY

Urban Schmitt, Pilot Grove, buys New Franklin bakery and moves to Boonville. Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Eades, Blackwater, celebrate golden wedding anniversary. City Council of Boonville passes resolution to pave Vine Street between Second and Third. Assessed valuation for city of Boonville is approximately $4,000,000, according to City Assessor, Earl Beckett. Edgar C. Nelson tales

charge of The Advertiser; Appointment of commissioners for special road districts approved by county court. Andrew Davin, Boonville, C.Q. Shouse, Blackwater, W.H. Elliott, Bunceton, Stanley Schlotzhauer, Pilot Grove; J.B. Gochenour, Otterville; E.T. Hale appointed county highway engineer, Dr. G. R. Russell, county health officer. Edgar C. (Pete) Lohse purchases the interest of partner in Master Cleaner Co.; Earl R. Porter, of Okmulgee, Okla., takes charge of Dascomb-Daniels Lumber year, recently purchased from Klenk-Coulter. Emmett R. Conwell et al awarded $7,167 in suit against Paul White, John B. Cox, and Jos. Davis, suit being in regard to trade of Cooper county land for Mississippi land; Jos. T. Hickam is awarded $5,000 in similar case against same defendants; frame house of Chas. Mills on Pendleton Ave., Boonville, burned. Otterville High School again approved as first class by State Superintendent of Schools; first free library in Cooper county organized at Prairie Home; Mr. and Mrs. Richard Lammer, Boonville, celebrate 38th wedding anniversary. Speed Farmers Elevator retails corn at 76 cents; C.J. Haeberle, of St. Louis, opens drug store in Boonville.

Weddings Nannie Hickam, Boonville, and Ira Sikes; Detroit, Mich., Earle Stegner, Kansas City, and Virginia Jones, Pilot Grove; Hoyt L. Wilhite and Catherine Tezon, both of Boonville; Vinita Potter, Blackwater, and Charles Shemwell,

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Arrow Rock; Leonard Stahl, Syracuse, and Esther Peoples, Syracuse; Donovan Smith, Nelson, and Anna B. Davis, Blackwater; Robert L. O’Neal and Jeanette Keuckelhan, Blackwater; Madge Settle and Eugene Kleasner; Fayette; Clarence O. Williams, Boonville, and Ruth V. Marr, Kansas City; Drury Brommer and Ella Soph, both of Boonville.

Births To Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hoggs, Lamine, a daughter; to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Berry, Boonville, a son; to Mr. and Mrs. August Meyer, near Pilot Grove, a son; to Mr. and Mrs. Bertram Felton, near Pilot Grove, twin sons; to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Krohn, Boonville, a son; Mr. and Mrs. John Esser, Boonville, a son; Mr. and Mrs. Chris Martin, Lamine, a son; Dr. and Mrs. F.L. Shields, Boonville, a son; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bornhauser; Prairie Home, a son; Mr. and Mrs. Albert Allee, Blackwater, a son.

Deaths Harold Woods, (colored) Boonville; Mrs. Harry Vets, 30, Boonville; Lloyd Piatt, 21, Boonville; Sanford Alonzo O’Neal, 52, Sedalia; Mrs. Wm. Bechtold, 75, Boonville; Joseph I. Hazell, 74, Sedalia, formerly of Speed; Mrs. Obed Noble, Marshall, formerly of Lamine. Mrs. Jos. T. Hickman 39, Boonville; Thos. Benjamin Mustain, 57, Blackwater; infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Kosfeld, Overton; Mrs. Jens Hein, 41, near Speed; Mrs. Frank L. Stretz, Jr., 43, Boonville; John A. Walden, 83, formerly of Fayette, dies in Kansas City; John Story, 72, near

Boonville, and his wife, Mrs. Malinda Ann Batten Story, 73; Urban A. Lester, 42, formerly of Boonville, died at Colorado Springs, Colo.; Mrs. Foster Brown, 24, Boonville; Gideon Edwin Meeker, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gid Meeker, Bunceton; infant son of Mr. and Mrs. M.R. Cooper, Overton; Mrs. Mary Magdalen Rofles, 82, Boonville. Irene Schubert, 59, Boonville; Malin Colvin, Jr., 4, Fort Worth, Texas; Miss Mary Edson, 78, Springfield, Mo.; R.A. Clark, New Franklin; Mrs. Henry McPhatridge, Prairie Home; Mrs. S.C. Rossen, 62, Boonville; Mrs. Julia Bishop, 72, Boonville; Mrs. Angeline Fernkase, 82, Boonville; Mrs. Silas Rankin, 62, Boonville; Thomas Vines, New Franklin; Henry J. Wolfrum, Bunceton; Jos. Miller, 81, Boonville; John B. Kirkpatrick, 74, Bunceton.

MARCH

Kemper Military School acquires Eldridge property on Third Street and will construct $100,000 gymnasium—the largest in Missouri A.G. Blakey resigns as member of the State Board of Penal Institutions. Verne K. Bettridge and Chas. E. Bidstrup, Cooper county students in short course at Missouri College of agriculture, win gold medals for stock judging. W.R. Million, veteran Boonville hotel man, drops dead on street. Mr. and Mrs. A.A. Wallace tour Cuba and Panama.

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Piggly-Wiggly Store, Boonville, sells under chattel mortgage. Kemper Military School announces adoption of full junior college course for next fall. Col. N.D. Patrick, Prairie Home, holds annual live stock sale that totals $8810. John H. Oswald, Bunceton, appointed superintendent of county home at Boonville. Nelson Memorial Methodist Sunday School presents Mrs. Milton Hoberecht with gold bar pin for not having missed Sunday school in 14 years. John H. Langkop, southeast of Bunceton, sells 64 purebred Hampshire sows and gilts at average of $41,94 with a top price of $157.50. L.M. Swarner, Boonville, sells 50 purebred Hampshire sows and gilts at average of $50, with a top of $100. Wm. Croswhite, Prairie Home, sells jack to Theo. Kuhn, Jamestown, for $500. Boonville subscribes $450 for free library to be maintained in courthouse. Officers for Boonville Chamber of Commerce assume duties; Gus Boller, present; Ellis Davis, lst vice president; C.E. Chrane, 2nd vice president; B.M. Lester, treas.; Henry Neef, secy. Seventy Cooper County district school presidents and clerks meet in Boonville. Willard Worts sells 50 purebred Duroc-Jersey sows and gilts in spring sale at average of $38.50.

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Boller, Boonville, celebrate golden wedding. J.A. Lang, Chouteau Springs, sells 20 head of 1245-pound steers to Oswald Bros. at $8 per cwt. C.D. Shirley holds successful live stock sale. Ewes with lambs sell for $15.25 each, brood sows up to $50, milk cows up to $110. Mr. and Mrs. Fred L. Schilb, Sr., celebrate 55th wedding anniversary. Boonville’s 9th monthly dollar-day attracts immense crowd. Rev. Geo. Wharton, Mexico, Mo., accepts call to pastorate of Boonville Episcopal church. Harry T. Manion’s New Franklin store burns. R.W. Lacy, Prairie Home, sells 17 head of 671-pound steers on St. Louis market at $9 per cwt. W.N. Harness, east of Speed, holds closing-out sale that totals $3,200.

Weddings Hal Rudolph, Buffalo, and Gladys McCown, Urbana; Wilbur Smith, Ardmore, Okla., and Frances L. Muntzel, Boonville; Samuel Baslee and Sallie Brown, Boonville; Ernest Mellor, Lamine, and Sarah Kempf, Pilot Grove; Walter Wieland and Myrtle King, Lone Elm; Sam Gabriel and Cleo Osterly, California; E. Norris Pizer, Tipton, and Mary McKnight, California, Mo.

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Births Son to Mr. and Mrs. Carl Fischer, near Prairie Home; son to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Creagan, Boonville; daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Babbitt, near Pleasant Green; son to Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Palmer, near Otterville; son to Mr. and Mrs. Orla Bollinger, Lakota; son to Mr. and Mrs. George Waije, Speed; son to Mr. and Mrs. Albert Klekamp, Lone Elm; daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Tuttle, Boonville, son to Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Huber, Boonville, son to Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Harris, Boonville; daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Gerhardt, Bunceton; son to Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Stewart, Blackwater; daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Copeland, Wellsville; daughter to Mr. and Mrs. K. D. Manson, Prairie Home; daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Archie Eichman, Blackwater; twin daughters to Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Tackett, Pisgah.

Deaths Peyton Lee, 11-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. H.L. Drennen, Blackwater; Mrs. Chas. Chambers, St. Louis; W. R. Million, 68, Boonville; Geo. W. Helmrich, 46, St. Louis; Larkin Bagby, 82, Blackwater; Mrs. Edith West Sanders, 25, Otterville; Henry Martensen, 60, near Otterville; Mrs. Iva Wilkerson, Raton, N.M.; Mrs. Mary Phillips, Sedalia; M.L. Weekly, 80, near Lamine; Andrew Bestgen, 59, near Tipton; Mrs. Kate Kammerich, Tipton; Mrs. Ivan Shepherd, 25, Boonville; Mrs. Sallie McNeal, 82, Otterville; Milton Lowrey, 73, Syracuse; Mrs. Ed Favorite, 54, Warrensburg; Mrs. Jack Henley, Rocheport; Capt. J. J. Eubank, 85, Hopkinsville, KY.; Rev. L. F. Shook, 52, Marshall; Mrs. Emma Molan

Newkirk, 44, Clark’s Fork; Ray Schaffner, 30, near California; Mrs. Susan Pulley, 82, South Moniteau township; Miss Maggie Chamberlin, 65, near Billingsville; Dr. W. A. Roberts, Wooldridge; Charles Chandler Wolfe, 67, Boonville; Frank S. Sauter, 64, Boonville; Mrs. Ball, 82, Pilot Grove; Billie, 3-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Morris Schuster, Blackwater; Carl B. Hummel, 25, Okmulgee, Okla.; Mrs. Margaret Allen, 84, Otterville; Hubbell, infant son of Richard Clay, Lupus; Miss Josephine Goetten, 42, St. Louis; M. Schieberl, 84, Boonville; Henry Franklin, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Baker, Prairie Home; Mrs. Margaret Doyle Coffman, 72, Pilot Grove; Mrs. Martha Woodson, 87, Bunceton; Nathan Lewis, 75, near Otterville.

APRIL

Guy C. Million, Jr., Boonville, struck by automobile and seriously injured. W.B. Downing re-elected super-intendent of Cooper County schools. E. A. Windsor, Boonville, goes to Cuba for a month. Miss Elizabeth Nicholson, 91, and sister, Mrs. Lucy Lindsay, 95, natives of Cooper county, burned to death in fire in their home in St. Louis. Frank Palmer, Katy employee at New Franklin, dies as result of being struck by train in yards at New Franklin. W. F. Johnson becomes president of Boonville school board, succeeding R. W. Whitlow, who resigned after having

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served as a member of the board for 36 years. Sedalia Presbytery meets in 33rd session with Otterville Presbyterian church. New Boonville city council meets and elects Herman Stretz chairman protem; C.G. Miller enters upon 22nd year as clerk. Col. J. B. Breathitt, Civil War veteran who once lived at Arrow Rock, dies at Tucson, Ariz. Willis T. Shackleford, Katy section foreman at New Franklin, loses leg when run over by freight car. Kemper Military School broadcasts radio program from Jefferson City. Cooper County Shorthorn Association holds sale of breeding stock at Bunceton; 26 head average $95.35. Wm. Fricke tops St. Louis cattle market with 19 steers averaging 963 pounds and selling at $8.90. One hundred twenty cases docketed for May term of Cooper County Circuit Court. H.T. Zuzak reelected present of Boonville Retail Merchants Assn. Fred Sombart, Boonville capitalist, buys Sam Holland tract of 18 acres for $12,000 and plans new addition to Boonville. Taylor Music Co., Columbia, opens store in Boonville.

Boonville’s free library opened in court house. Lillis Circle No. 253, Daughters of Isabella instituted in Boonville with 73 members. Toler Bros., Prairie Home, sell 19 heard of 845-pound steers to Oswald Bros., Boonville, at $7.50 per cwt. Seventeen past chancellors, Boonville Knights of Pythias, banquet at Holt’s Café.

Weddings Carter A. Robinson, Boonville, and Lucile Ray, New Franklin; James Murphy, Chicago, and Marie Dumolt, south of Boonville; Elwood Harris, Lamine, and Hallie Willis, Arrow Rock; Geo. H. Thiel, Tipton, and Kathryn Stoecklin, Pleasant Green; Berry Laws, Bunceton, and Dixie Fox, Sikeston; Phillip Howard McKinley and Charlotte Rudolph, Kansas City; Geo. Hoefer, and Mary Mills, Boonville; Chris Frieling and Emile Vieth, east of Speed; Edward H. Gross, Franklin, and Rose Mary Bonen, Chouteau Springs; Wayne Berry, Speed and Emma Oswald, Bunceton; Walter Ohlendorf and Mary V. Kruse, Boonville; Leonard H. Gantner, Boonville, and Veronica W. Stolle, Pilot Grove; J. E. Kittrell and Lourine Ghelkem, Lexington, Ky.; Geo. E. Klenlen, Pilot Grove, and Helen Lorens, Clifton City; Edward J. Schmidt, Bunceton, and Hazel E. Miller, Speed; Geo. H. Loesing and Bessie Rush, Boonville.

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Births Son to Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Stewart, Lakota; son of Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Todd, Otterville, twin daughters to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Less, Lupus; daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Hill, Lamine; son to Dr. and Mrs. Harry B. Hickman, Pilot Grove; daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Muril S. Potter, Boonville; daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Hardey Coleman, Pilot Grove.

Deaths Miss Bertha Haller, 53, near Lamine; George W. Drennen, 73, Boonville; Frank Palmer, 29, Bunceton; W. P. Palmer, 58, Fulton; Jas. T. Hurt, 88, near Bunceton; Mrs. Sterling Harris, Clarksburg; Jacob Lippy, 74, Clarksburg; Miss Ellen Barlett, 74, Otterville; Mrs. L. W. Shelton, Prairie Home; Ferdinand Shannon, 25, St. Louis; B.F. Anderson, 62, Wooldridge; George Goose, 57 Otterville; Paul Smith, 68, Otterville; Simon Cronin, 65, California; Tony Vollmer, near Pilot Grove; Green Wooldridge, 77; Pilot Grove; Walter Caton, 61, Blackwater; Mrs. James Long, near Lamine; George W. Carey, 90, Prairie Home; Mrs. Maggie Bader Nold, Pilot Grove; Roy F. Bane, 46, formerly of Tipton, at Dallas, Texas; Sarah Marie, 2 year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John McFarland, southwest of Bunceton; Mrs. H.D. Case, 55, Otterville.

MAY Locust Grove schoolhouse, near Lamine, burns; Boonville daily vacation Bible school opens; Ed S. Harte,

president of Boonville Mills Co. elected President of Mo. Grain Dealers Assn. in K.C.; J. E. Waltersheid opens drug store in Boonville; 14 new houses under construction in Boonville; Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Tavenner, Pleasant Green, celebrate 20th wedding anniversary; Rev. B. F. Reed purchases 176-acre Lee Dunn farm near Blackwater, for $53 per acre; pair good work mules brings $250; Farmers Elevator at Speed sells carload of shelled corn at 91 cents a bushel; and bought during April 4,621 dozen eggs at 20 cents a dozen average; Brownfield & Schuster sell 20 1605-pound steers at St. Louis for $9.10 a cwt. Boonville City Council appropriates $3,000 for extending water mains; Morgan street being paved to Missouri Training School; Bunceton holds “school community day;” Martin Hayes, of Liberty, buys cafe from Chas. W. Powell; May 9 temperature is 32 at 4 a.m.—“blackberry winter”; S. C. Williamson becomes manager of C. J. Harris Lumber year in Boonville. W. L. Barrett succeeds C.O. Williams at principal of Boonville High School; third convention of Cooper County Farm Clubs held; Alex Stephens, proprietor of Boonville Tire & Accessory Co., moves store to Main and High Streets; Alpha Delphian chapter organized with Mrs. Ida Barth Victor, pres. Boonville High school graduates 44; Mr. and Mrs. M.J. Mansager, near Boonville, celebrate silver wedding anniversary.

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Weddings Herbert A. Hawthorne and Mrs. Sarah Ellen Moore, formerly of Bunceton, married in Los Angeles; Dr. I. S. Kehr, Bunceton, and Meta Otto, Appleton City; John R. Karm and Lydia Knorp, Overton; Sylvester S. Zimmerman, and Lillian F. Howard, California; Beulah Mayfield, Boonville, and Floyd Withrow, Sedalia. Loretta Quinlin and Virgil Stretz, Pilot Grove; Nora Catherine Walje and Lloyd John Brickner, Boonville; Viola Marie Walje and Jacob Ernest Neef, Boonville; Bennie F. Lancaster, Franklin, and Ruby B. Conrow, New Franklin; Claude Williams, Boonville, and Verna Hopkins; John D. Meyer, Blackwater, and Edna Winn, Pilot Grove; Neva Sharpe, Clarksburg, and J. T. Young, Elsberry; Olive Wilson, formerly of Lupus, and Wm. Yancey, formerly of new Pisgah, in Kansas City.

Births To Mr. and Mrs. V. H. Williams, Boonville, a son; to Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Polley, Pleasant Green, a son; to Mr. and Mrs. Ott Waltermeyer, Prairie Home, a daughter; to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Raily, Clarksburg, a daughter; to Mr. and Mrs. W. Waid Draffen, near Cotton, a son; to Mr. and Mrs. Albert Kendrick, near Wooldridge, a daughter; to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Martin, Lamine, a daughter; to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bozarth, Blackwater, a son; to Mr. and Mrs. Carl Brandes, near Bunceton, a son.

Deaths Wilbur McCarty, 30, Clifton City; Ira Blakely, Arrow Rock; Wm. E. Walton, 80, Kansas City; formerly of Boonville; Robert Schwitzky, 60, Speed; W.E. Ray, Boonville; Robert Ranklin, 73, Clark’s Fork; Rev. Haynes, formerly pastor at Bell Air, dies at California; Mrs. Chas. Reed, 40, Otterville; Mrs. Ann Steele, 84, Otterville; John S. Underwood, Sr., 78, Boonville; Pat Shivers, 65, Blackwater; James Emil Carey, 39, Speed.

JUNE

Mark Jacobs, 53, Boonville merchant dies suddenly. U.S. Senator Jas. A. Reed and Hon. W. F. Johnson deliver funeral orations over his body. One hundred and seven graduates receive diplomas from Kemper Military School. Body of J. J. Miller, 64, Lamine fisherman, taken from Missouri River at Rocheport. Foul play suspected. One hundred and fifty pupils register for Boonville’s Vacation Bible School. Cooper County Farmers Association hold postponed meeting of third annual convention in Boonville. Col. T. A. Johnston receives degrees of Doctor of Laws from Missouri Valley College and Westminster College. E. E. Amick, formerly of Cooper county, elected treasurer of Missouri State Bankers Association;

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P.T. Donahoe, 52, native of Cooper county, died in Port Arthur, Texas, where he was prominent in harbor development. Father Hildebrand, Pilot Grove, celebrates 25th anniversary in priesthood. Col. N. D. Patrick, Prairie Home, buys stock hogs at $6.50 per cwt. Ex-governor Jos. W. Folk dies in New York. Fred Sombart, Boonville capitalist, buys 20 acres of land from his neighbor, M. J. Mansager for $4,750. M. K. & T. pays Cooper county fee of $218 for recording deed and two deeds of trust. Dr. R. L. Evans elected director of Boonville school district, succeeding Mark Jacobs, deceased. Local light company announces contemplated improvements amounting to $30,000. Bert, 12-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. O. S. Holloman, Boonville, meets death in local swimming pool. Speed Farmers Elevator Co. retails carload of shelled corn at 98 cents. Boonville ferryboat, Helen, sold to Huntington, W. Va., for use on the Ohio River. Missouri River within four feet of flood stage but far below high mark of 1903. Kemper made honor school by war department for 10th consecutive year. Mrs. Mary Swap, Boonville, celebrates 93rd birthday.

Harris family holds annual reunion at “Homewood,” near Blackwater. Heavy rains check chinch bugs. Hobert H. Hale, who leaped from train at Boonville, taken to Cannon county, Tenn., to face charge of attempted murder. E.L. Preston, formerly of Boonville Advertiser, buys Norborne Democrat. Gil Jewett sells 140 head of 67-pound lambs in St. Louis, for $15.75 with 25 out of at $9; George Brandes sells car load of 1150-pound steers in St. Louis at $9.50; G. A. Brownfield & Son sell 16 head of 1,000-pound steers in St. Louis at $10.10; Brownfield & Schuster top St. Louis market with 50 steers averaging 1667 pounds, fed by Frank Schuster selling at $10.85; F. C. Swarner, Tipton, delivers 23 head of 1347-pound steers to Robein & Oswald at $10. E. J. Melton, Boonville, buys Caruthersville Republican and takes charge July 1. Boonville’s monthly trade carnival attracts big crowds. Dr. Burris A. Jenkins, Kansas City, speaks at quarterly banquet of Boonville Chamber of Commerce. Boonville Daily Vacational Bible School, under leadership of Rev. F. Stoerker, closes very successful four weeks’ session. E. B. Sly, Bell Air, appointed State Fair Commissioner for Cooper county. Rev. and Mrs. F. E. Cooper, Boonville, arrive in Southampton. Dept. shows income for 1922 amounted to $19,826.93. Crops of all kinds very promising.

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Abundance of home grown strawberries and cherries on market.

Weddings Lonzo Birdsong, Lakota, and Dorothy McDowell, Clarksburg; John Meyer and Edna Weisenhorn, Pilot Grove, Wm. Viertel and Dorsey May Neal, Boonville; John B. Payne and Virginia Reed, Boonville; Harold Barnett and Martha Shipley, Boonville; John M. Livesay, Paris, and Elizabeth Stone, Blackwater; Scott Wilson, Belton, and Sue C. Williams, Boonville; Shelby Salmons, Boonville, and Rosie Meyer, Pilot Grove; Hampton Williams and Jessie Gothwait, Blackwater; Chas. J. Schler, Pilot Grove, and Elizabeth Sander, Napton; Francis E. Bock, Pilot Grove, and Florence C. Robien, Boonville; Frank J. Thoma and Margaret E. Haller, Boonville; Albert C. Hesse, Washington, and Florence Ohlendorf, Boonville; Edward Carl Spangler, Tucson, Ariz., and Lucy Kelly, Bunceton; Emil Lonjers, Boonville, and Miss Louise Ott, Decatur, Ill.; William Forrest Lyons, Higginsville, and Alma Macdonnell, Bunceton; Everett Golden and Velma Spry, Boonville; Reveau M. Bassett, Ft. Worth, Texas, and Frances L. Waltz, Boonville; Wyatt Eubank and Nellie Staples, Neligh, Nebr.; Glen Bryan, Kansas City, and Bertie Silvers, Butler; Earl R. Cole and Caroline Schmalfeldt, Boonville.

Births Son to Mr. and Mrs. Lee Roy Milligan, Lakota; daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Stratton, Otterville; son to Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Burger, Pilot Grove; son to Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Helmreich, Speed; twin

sons to Mr. and Mrs. Arlie Sanders, Otterville; son to Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Schupp, Pleasant Green; son to Mr. and Mrs. Jake Lachner, Prairie Home; son to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Dugan, Prairie Home; son to Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Simpich, Washington, D.C.

Deaths Mark Jacobs, 53, Boonville; Mrs. Martha McGarock, 85, New Franklin; Brown Collins, Oneca, Fla., Martin Woodson Parrish, 49, Saskatchewan, Canada; Ben Veith, 83, east of Bunceton; Bert Holloman, 12, Boonville, Edith Holliday, 53, colored, near Bell Air; Dennis Jackson, 96, colored, Bunceton; L. H. Hayter, 68, formerly of Howard county, at Tulsa, Okla.; Mrs. Christina Zahringer Hilden, 76, Pilot Grove; John Kahart Wesselman, 89, Pilot Grove; Henry E. Vaught, 36, Bunceton; Mrs. Gus Holdner; Green Ridge; Leslie Bartley, 13-year-old son of John B. Schupp, Kansas City; Israel Woodson, 76, colored, Bunceton; Mrs. Laura Lockett, 70, at Tulsa Okla.; Mrs. B. E. Hampton, 41, Jamestown; Mrs. Hob Cole, 27, Pleasant Green; Robert Kay, 78, Clarksburg; Joseph Vaughan, 83, Lakota.

JULY Eleventh annual convention of Cooper County Sunday School Association in Boonville; Cooper County has 70 students enrolled at Central Missouri State College at Warrensburg; final payment of $14,000 made on bond issue for court house; bonded indebtedness of Cooper county is

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$125,000 for roads and bridges; Boonville swimming pool opens. Luther Moore, Lakota, tops St. Louis market with 25 1037-pound Angus cattle, price $9.75; John B. Bryan sells Prairie Lick elevator to J. A. Brownfield and W. B. Simmons of Pilot Grove; Dr. Stratton D. Brooks assumes presidency of Missouri University; Pilot Grove chapter of D.A.R. organized with Mrs. John Simmons as Regent; Heavy rains make corn plowing and late wheat harvest impossible. Annual Mission Festival held at Lone Elm Lutheran church; plans are being made for Round Up; W. A. Betteridge, Pleasant Green, sells 15-months Orange Blossom bull for $250; Garth Clinkscales, of Columbia, buys New Franklin Ford agency from Robt. Weyland; Robt. Schwitsky threshes first wheat near Speed yield being 12 to 20 bushels, weighting 57-58 pounds; Schwartz Bros. get $10 a cwt. for 1030-pound steers at St. Louis; H.E. Meeker, Bunceton, sells 151 acre farm to Mrs. Lenna Stephens for $109 acre. Seventy stolen automobiles are recovered in Cooper county; Speed Farmers Elevator sells carload of corn at 90 cents. D.B. Mayfield gets $11 at Chicago for 58 1315 pound steers; Otterville special road district votes $10,000 bonds; Cooper county crop conditions far above average; Les Rickman kills 4-foot rattlesnake near Lakota.

Weddings Lt. Jay John Patterson, U.S.R., and Rhoda Robertson, New Franklin; Howard M. Harned, Kansas City and

Mildred N. Boothe, Sedalia; Robert Mitzel, Pleasant Green and Iva Harris, Sedalia; Theodore L. Vicroy and Helen Harwood Southern, Monroe City; Floyd Weisser and Eunice Potter, Lupus. Leo Derkum, Sedalia and Nona Sydenstricker, Warrensburg; William Williams and Leona M. Williams, Marshall; Joseph A. Altermott, Pleasant Green and Tiney A. Gholson, Pilot Grove; John Spencer and Irene Dade, Franklin; Reinhart Schupp, Pilot Grove; and Freida K. Bergman, Pleasant Green.

Births A daughter to Mr. and Mrs. E.B. Darby, Boonville; son to Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Schrader, Boonville; son to Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Taliaferro, Grand Rapids, Mich.; son to Mr. and Mrs. Jonas Thomas, Pleasant Green; son to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Thomas, Blackwater; son to Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Lee, Lakota; son to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hundley, Speed; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Parks of Napton; son to Mr. and Mrs. Howard King, Boonville; daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Bun Needy, New Lebanon; son to Mr. and Mrs. Farris Cole, Otterville; son to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Rasmussen; Speed; daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Berkey, Sandy Hook; son to Mr. and Mrs. Edward Huff, near Billingsville; son to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Friedrich, Speed; daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Poindexter, Prairie Home; daughter to Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Oswald, Otterville; son to Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Haley, Boonville.

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Morris W. Edwards, New Franklin; Lon Daniel, formerly of Bunceton, at Farwell, Texas; Mrs. Velma Butchers Seaton, 35, Bunceton; Paul Rogers, 25, Boonville; Mrs. B.F. Layne, 52, Bunceton; Wm. K. Brandes, 77, Prairie Home; Wm. C. Meyer, 64, Boonville; Ira Sikes, 22, Detroit, Mich., Mrs. Kemp Stephens, 79, Columbia; Jas. M. Rose, 81, Otterville; Gladys Ethie Young, 11, Boonville; Mrs. Louis C. Sunkel, St. Louis, formerly of Tipton; Robt. Conway, Longwood; J. T. Vaughan, 68, Boonville; infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Yager, Boonville; the Rev. Hildebrand Roesler, O.S.B., Pilot Grove; Mrs. Geo. Rodgers, 36, Nevada City; Jas. T. Ford, Parsons, Kans.

AUGUST Guy Davis and Miss Mabel G. Viertel announce wedding at Clinton, June 6th. Mrs. Ed M. Jewett sells residence lot on Main St., Boonville, to A. F. Wolfson for $4,500. Mr. Wolfson will erect modern home. Confederate veterans of Cooper county meet at Blackwater. Cooper county has 5,101 school children; 49 teachers employed last year. Battery D boys of Boonville in camp at Ft. Sill, Okla. Mr. and Mrs. Claus Stammerjohn, Boonville, celebrate 55th wedding

anniversary. Mrs. Elizabeth Stites, Pilot Grove, celebrates 84th birthday. R. S. Hunter, Versailles, sells 60 head of 1,400-pound steers to Nixon & Marriott at $7.25 per cwt. Wheat threshing in full blast and yield runs from 15 to 22 bushels. President Harding dies at San Francisco; memorial services held at various points in Cooper county, in accordance with plans for all the nation to revere memory of dead president. John Stammerjohn named acting postmaster at Boonville; Joe Dewey Scott named postmaster at Bunceton. Novella, 12-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Hutchison, Lupus, falls from Missouri River bluff and meets tragic death. Immense crowds attend 9th annual Prairie Home fair. Shore span on Boonville bridge completed. Body of Frank H. Hartshorn, Kansas City broker, recovered from Missouri River at Boonville. Twenty-third annual Missouri Fair opens at Sedalia. O.F. Arnold, former representative of Cooper county, died at home in Webb City; interment at Bunceton. Mrs. Leslie Orear and little daughter, Fray, of Chicago, killed in an auto accident near Jonesburg; party was on way to Blackwater to attend wedding for

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Mrs. Orear’s niece, Mary Claiborne Fray. Lamine Baptist Association holds annual meeting in Boonville; 75 delegates from 20 churches present; F. C. Richards, Versailles, reelected moderator; meeting at Freedom church next year. Annual state conference of Seventh Day Adventists convenes in Boonville. H. Roger Starke, Otterville, delivers 30 head of 202-pound hogs to D. B. Mayfield at $7.85; R. W. Lacy, Prairie Home, tops St. Louis market with 101 head of 60-pound lambs selling at $13.25. Robt. Jarman, 3-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Lon Jarman, Pilot Grove, killed when auto overturns on road 7 miles west of Boonville. Dr. C. C. Manger, native of Boonville, who became eminent physician and surgeon, died in Los Angeles, funeral here. Earl Longkop, 14, east of Bunceton, wins $72 in premiums on Hampshire hogs at Missouri State Fair; Fray & Fray, Blackwater make heavy winnings on Spotted Polands; T.A. Harris & Sons, Lamine, Chris Smith, Bunceton; L.M. Feland, Tipton; John Langkop, Bunceton; Mrs. T. A. Nelson, Sr., Bunceton; Tom Groves, Tipton; Emmons Tutt, Bunceton; F. B. White, Tipton; Howard & Bailey, Tipton, Miss Elizabeth Boone, Boonville, W. F. Hoepfinger, Jamestown, A. B. Cole & Son and D. E. Hall & Son, California, Scottlea Farms; Nelson; C. H. E. Walther, Boonville; W. S. Poage, Syracuse; Mrs. A. G. Koechner, Tipton,

H.W. Jenkins, Boonville, all heavy winners at Missouri State Fair.

Weddings Tom Putnam and Alma Monks, Bunceton; Andy Pilgrim and Emma Theiss, Prairie Home; Lewis G. Dilse, Boonville, and Alma L. Smith, Overton; Jas. Ross Williams, Speed, and Verna Marie Burch, Boonville; Lieut. Frank J. Dupras, Boonville, and Grace Kennedy, Buffalo, N.Y.; Karl Back and Alma Scholle, Boonville; Raymond Brickey, Festus, and Dorothy Bollinger, Waterloo, Ill.; Leslie Cowan and Mary E. Chambers, Columbia; Vincent Orear, Indianapolis, and Mary Claiborne Fray, Blackwater; Clarence Doll and Miss Emma Lennon, Chicago; Lester U. Greer and Anna Meyer, Pilot Grove; Ben Schuster, Kansas City, and Margaret Collins, Iola, Kans.; Lawrence Schulze and Mrs. Bessie Muri, Lupus.

Births Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Geo. A. Tutt, Bunceton; son to Mr. and Mrs. Forest English, Speed; daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Will Strickfadden, Blackwater; daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Thomas, Lakota; daughter to Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Meeker, Bunceton; daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Harris, Lamine; son to Mr. and Mrs. Alex H. Stephens, Boonville; daughter to Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Hansen, Memphis, Tenn.; son to Mr. and Mrs. Elza Bales, Kansas City; son to Rev. and Mrs. Paul Neidermeyer, Billingsville; son to Dr and Mrs. Lueckert, Blackwater; daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Herschel Lewis, Nelson; daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey Schuster, Blackwater; son to Mr. and

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Mrs. F. C. Hall, Blackwater; son to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Back, Boonville; daughter to Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Frame, Columbia; son to Mr. and Mrs. Riley Edwards, Bunceton; son to Mr. and Mrs. Lucien Barnes, Columbia.

Deaths D.B. Herndon, 85, New Lebanon; John Smith, 61, Prairie Home; infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Larrimore, Prairie Home; Lee Canole, 49, St. Louis; Val Williams, colored, Blackwater; Mrs. Mary J. Dunnavant, Roodhouse, Ill.; Lucille, 10-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Doyle, Pilot Grove; Jacob McGuire, 70, Chouteau; O.F. Arnold, 79, Webb City; Mrs. Cliff Harron, 58, Eldorado Springs; Wm. Cooper, 18, colored, Blackwater; Harry Vots, infant, Boonville; Mrs. Leslie Orear, 34, formerly of Blackwater; Mrs. Pauline Barth, 58, Boonville; James Robert Edwards, 64, Slater; J. G. Clay, 69, Lupus; J. W. Rutherford, 65, Otterville; Dr. C. C. Manger, 52, Los Angeles, Calif.; Miss Mary Maria Williams, Pilot Grove; Teel Shull, 19, Lupus; Mrs. John Dyer, 73, Barnett; Mrs. Emma Stegner, 76, Boonville.

SEPTEMBER Boonville Chautauqua season ticket sale totals $1680, program good; Mack F. Denman buys Ralph G. Fray’s interest in Bunceton Eagle; Boonville schools open with 554 pupils; Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Young, Clifton City, celebrate golden wedding anniversary; The Traders Bank of Tipton closes.

Mr. and Mrs. Adam Schuster, Lamine township, celebrate 40th wedding anniversary; The Advertiser begins 78th year of publication; administrators’ sale held by Wm. and Henry Gerhardt, Speed, totals $4,899; Layton Mills sells 80-acre farm near Clark’s Fork to Phipps Bros. for $100 acre; O’Neal Y& Son, Blackwater, sell to Armour at St. Louis 82 1311-pound steers for $10.40. Wm. McClurg, formerly of Blackwater, buys 100 acres south of Blackwater from Citizens Trust Co. for $150 per acre; Wingert Houpt buys 51 acres 6 miles southeast of Boonville for $2900; Boonville Athletic Club is reorganized.

Deaths John M. Stammerjohn, 43 Boonville; Chas. W. Tucker, Arrow Rock; Ella Rene Keiser, 12, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Keiser, Clark’s Fork; Mrs. Cal Hagar, 54, Boonville; Miss Cora Fuser, 24, Vinita, Okla.; Paul Hopkins, 4, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hopkins, Boonville; Robert C. Toler, 29, Versailles; Mrs. Eugene Chamberlain, 27, Bell Air; Helen Weisser, 3, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Weisser, Lupus. John Casteel, 39, bridge worker at Boonville, of Pilot Rock, Ore.; Miss Elouise Chilton, 78, Bunceton; Harry King Denman, Farmington; Nelson Ernest Rowles, 20, Otterville; Wm. Templemeier, 41, Otterville, Mrs. E. D. Merriott, Versailles; Robt. S. Risher, 50, Otterville. C.M. Zollinger, 37, Otterville; August H. Pohlman, 76, Wooldridge; the Rev. J. G. Pfantz, Macon; Mrs. Elizabeth Ellen Drennen, 73, Boonville; Linus W. Deuel; 86, Sedalia; Chas. Yost, 71,

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Kansas City; Leonidas Embry, 96, California.

Births A daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Earl Lauer, Boonville; daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Strawn Wilcox, Boonville; daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Ollie Thomas, Boonville; son to Mr. and Mrs. Ewing Meyer, Clark’s Fork; daughter to Mr. and Mrs. A.H. Clarke, Los Angeles, Cal.; son to Mr. and Mrs. Luther Copas, Sedalia; son to Mr. and Mrs. Horace Cole, Bunceton; son to Mr. and Mrs. Elon Gander, Vermont; daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Carey, Speed; son to Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Long, Pleasant Green; daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Peter Gramlich, Pleasant Green; son to Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Taylor, Pleasant Green. A son to Mr. and Mrs. Monte Haller, Boonville; daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Roy Hull, Boonville; daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Warren Ritchie, Prairie Home; son to Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Adair, Prairie Home; son to Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Parker, Lakota.

Weddings William Silas Marr, Pilot Grove, and Omita Cottrell, Jefferson City; Aldred Bauer, formerly of Pilot Grove, and Thelma Thorp, Kansas City; James Matt Meredith and Irene Gross, Boonville; Trevor F. Hill, Boonville and Selma Menke, New Franklin; John H. Klein, Prairie Home and Rachael F. Stephens, Lupus; Fred P. Richey and Elizabeth Parkhurst, Bunceton; Thomas Lucas and Odessa Dow, Boonville; Hagar Miller and Bernice Basket, Boonville.

Lee Blythe, Raton, New Mexico, and Anna Godbey, Warrensburg; Linwood Stroud, Slater, and Lula Long, formerly of Pleasant Green; Estill Oswald, Lamine, and Mary Garthoffner, Boonville. Urban Gantner and Rylie Minor, Boonville; Victor Brueckner, Boonville, and Pauline Brockman, Woodridge; Harold Brummel, Kansas City, and Helen Stretz, Boonville; Thos. Harvey Windsor and Besse Brosius, Prairie Home.

OCTOBER Cooper County Round Up at Boonville a great success; every department filled with choice exhibits; 53 babies in Better Babies department. Col. N.D. Patrick, holds full sale of live stock totaling $4429. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Schlotzhauer, Pilot Grove, celebrate 25th wedding anniversary. Old Tavern at Arrow Rock turned over to the custody of Missouri D.A.R. Many from Boonville witness ceremonies. C.H. Schupp succeeds W.B. Layne as cashier of Cooper County Bank, Bunceton. Fayette celebrates 100th anniversary of the founding of the town. Tipton State Bank organized with Tom Briscoe as president; J.H. Moore, cashier.

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Cooper County Farmers Mutual Insurance Co. holds annual meeting at Bunceton; company is 27 years old and has over 2 ½ millions insurance in force. Oscar Spieler, Boonville, sells 44 spring Spotted Poland China gilts at average of $18 per head; W.P. Hoepfinger, Jamestown, sells 27 purebred Poland China hogs at average of $24.40. Mrs. Helen Elwood Stokes, New York woman being used for divorce by millionaire husband, visits Boonville and Bunceton, securing testimony tending to refute allegations made by husband; returns to New York and wins suit. Bishop Partridge, Kansas City, speaks to 175 members of Boonville Chamber of Commerce on Japan. J.D. Crain and other Cooper county men, charged with violations of liquor law, draw heavy fines in federal court at Jefferson City. Speed get electric light and power connection from transmission line from California. Mrs. and Mrs. R.L. Moore, Nashville, Ga., visit Boonville, where they were prominent in church and social life for many years. Twenty-six vocational students of Boonville high school, under Prof. Barrett, visit Ravensood Farm. Battery D., Boonville, changed from anti-aircraft battery to unit of 128th field artillery, and receives 32 horses as part of equipment.

Woodridge Baptist church buys piano and dedicates it at opening of revival meeting. Prices for new corn in Cooper county range from 60 cents to 80 cents. Rolla D. Pealer, clerk of Cooper county, elected president of County Clerks’ Association of Missouri.

Weddings Otha Reynolds, Creighton, and Kathryn Clawson, Strasburg; Nathan J. Fleming and Aileen Kitchell, Kansas City, Kansas; Melvan V. Cauthorn, Kansas City, and Rosalia R. Back, Boonville; Jos. Clarence Zimmerman and Mattie E. Quint, Boonville; Ellis F. Harris and Velma G. Routon, Boonville; Wm. J. Burns, Vernon City, N.Y., and Miss Nan Meistrell, formerly of Boonville; Wilbur M. Harris, Lamine, and Josephine Allen, Boonville; Archie L. Farris, Boonville, and Cornelia Finley, Boonville; Walter Payne, Boonville, and Neal Martin, Boonville, Robert F. Geiger and Sarah M. Nelson, Boonville; Earl Luster, Clarksburg and Meri Hunt, Lakota.

Births Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Hoerl, near Lone Elm; son to Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Burge, Blackwater; son to Mr. and Mrs. George Renfrow, Wooldridge; son to Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Watkins, Sedalia; daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wolfe, Pleasant Green; son to Mr. and Mrs. T. T. Roe, New Franklin; daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Friedrich, near Speed; daughter to Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Schnur, Pisgah; son to Mr. and Mrs. John Roehrs, Jr.,

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Bunceton; daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Twillman, Bunceton; daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Delbert York, Lakota; son to Mr. and Mrs. Lee Wolfe, Pleasant Green.

Deaths Mrs. Mary E. Roberts, 91, Boonville; Jos. H. Smith, 80, Otterville; Mrs. C. A. Knox, Memphis, Tenn.; W. R. Lee, 59, formerly of Lakota, at Riverside; Wm. Silas Carver, 68, south of Otterville; Miss Jessie Hornbeck, 40, California; Mrs. M. Para, Centertown; Paul Farris, New Franklin; Mrs. Frank Quattrocchi, of Hannibal, at St. Joseph’s hospital, Boonville; infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Odom, Overton; Mrs. Anna Turner, 73, native of England, at Prairie Home; O.D., 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ward Edwards, Warrensburg; John Brandt, Jefferson City; Geo. McNeal, 66, Lakota.

NOVEMBER Mr. and Mrs. A.M. Koontz, Boonville, celebrate golden wedding anniversary; new corn sells for 75 cents in south Cooper; rock road west of Boonville is resurfaced; Harned’s Milking Shorthorn sale averages $78.75; the Reverend Suddath, of the Bell Air Methodist church, and Mrs. Suddath celebrate 25th wedding anniversary. John Bryan’s sale of Spotted Polands totals $1853. Advertiser issues 24-page Farm Club edition, first of kind in the state; Cooper county Shorthorn Association averages $85.75; L.R. Pedego’s sale at Clarksburg totals $3490; Les Rickman’s sale totals

$2219; W.F. Allen, Boonville, acquires Frank G. Felton farm of 485 acres near Billingsville; Mr. and Mrs. M.C. Johnmeyer, Boonville, celebrate tin wedding anniversary. J.E. Taliaferro appointed justice of peace for Boonville township; Ewing Trigg takes over management of Arrow Rock Tavern; Citizens Trust Company bought by Farmers Trust Company; Col. T.A. Johnston, Kemper, celebrates 75th birthday. Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Brown, near Chouteau Springs, celebrate silver wedding anniversary; Edgar Brandes buys half interest in Pisgah store. Thanksgiving hunting party in an auto go through overhead bridge, 2 ½ miles southeast of Boonville resulting in death to Chas L. Weyland, Chas. Henry Bauer, and Harry Weyland, Boonville. Jas. Tucker recovers. Mr. and Mrs. John Hampy, formerly of Cooper county, living in Colorado Springs, celebrate golden wedding anniversary; Boonville Chamber of Commerce appropriates $50 to take census of Boonville; Fray and Fray, Blackwater, T.A. Harris & Sons, Lamine, and Mrs. Geo. Bandes, Boonville, win many prizes at American Royal in Kansas City.

Weddings Wilbur Lee Huth and Rosa Marie Baer, Prairie Home; G.N. Houser, Tipton, and Della Fredmeyer, California; Chas. H. Kukendall, and Bertie Barlett, Otterville; Phillip Seitz and Ruth Hobnek, Jamestown; W.L. Berry, Otterville, and Emma Embfey, Sedalia; Dr. Chas. Koehler, Kansas

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City, and Gertrude Cleary, Boonville; William A. Windsor, Prairie Home, and Mrs. Clara Adair, California; Joseph Vasper and Virginia Harris, Boonville; Henry C. Vieth and Helen Shackleford; Bunceton; Patrick D. Sweeney, Boonville, and Macaar E. Needy, Clifton City; Frederick Bantrup and Katherine L. Carpenter, Boonville; Milton Woods, Columbia, and Jennie Smith, Boonville; Porter William Tumy and Alma Burge, Boonville; Joseph Waber and Ida Whittaker, Boonville.

Births Son to Mr. and Mrs. John C. Turley, Lamine; daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Mellor, Lamine; son to Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Toer, son to Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Oerly, Lupus, daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Davis, Boonville; daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Hardy Rouke, Blackwater; son to Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Woolery, near Pleasant Green; daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Solon Hurt, Syracuse; daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Fuel, Kansas City; daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Warren Birdsong, Lakota; daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Snider, Boonville.

Deaths Mrs. Theo. Brandes, 64, Prairie Home; Mrs. Rose E. Huber, St. Louis; Mrs. A.J. Davis, 55, Sedalia; Jas. Hickam, 19, Kansas City; Mrs. John Gabriel, Longwood; John E. Watson, 78, Boonville; T.H.F. Howard, 72, Pisgah; Maurice Albin, 10, Lakota; Samuel Daniels, editor of Versailles Leader, 66, Roy Woodrow Potter, son of Mr. and Mrs. S.J. Potter, Sedalia, infant son of Mrs. Nannie Elizabeth Sikes, Boonville; infant son of Mr. and Mrs.

Jas. Gensler, Overton; Chas. C. Greenlease, 73, Kansas City; William Bell, 72, Otterville; B. Joseph Felton, 79, Boonville; Benjamin Franklin Parker, 87, Clarksburg; Jacob Straten, 69, Otterville; Jas. Smith, 55, colored, Speed; Katherine Jahns, 28, Lupus; Wm. Belle Deatherage, 71, Lupus; R.O. Newman, 75, Berkeley, Calif.; Judge John G. Slate, St. Louis, Mrs. Jennettia Arnold, 75, Boonville; Mrs. Wilhelmina Lenger, 76, Pleasant Grove; Benjamin Powell, 74, Pilot Grove; Miss Lelia Calpernia Varney, 67, Otterville; Mrs. Margret Mayer, 80, Boonville; Mrs. Henry R. Walker, 60, Pleasant Green at Atlanta, Ga.; Joseph W. Elliott, 70, Pilot Grove; Chas. Henry Bauer, 21, Boonville; Chas L. Weyland, 20, Boonville, Harry Weyland, 18, Boonville.

DECEMBER Much interest manifested in Boonville Advertiser’s subscription campaign. Wm. L. Stephens, veteran banker of Versailles, dead. Members of Central Missouri Veterinary Association hold meeting in Boonville. Mr. and Mrs. G. Hutch Moore, east of Speed, celebrate golden wedding. Cooper county committee of Missouri Association formed in Boonville, with O.F. Kelley as chairman. Cooper county has 45 notaries public according to list published in Boonville Advertiser.

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Henry W. Harris, 75, Sedalia, a widely known Missouri banker, dead. Christmas turkeys very cheap, selling for 18 and 20 cents, as compared with 35 cents last year. Route for Primary Road No. 12 will go through Otterville township, thus giving Cooper county eight miles additional of hard surfaced roads. Mrs. Horace Windsor receives $92.80 for 97 White Rock hens which weighed 580 pounds and sold at 16 cents per pound. Harness & Waije, Speed, receive two car loads of hogs at prices ranging from $5.59 to $6.15 per cwt. Gill Jewett has 50 winter lambs. Robt. Schwitsky sells car load of 600-pound steers in St. Louis at $9.25 per cwt. J.W. Walker, of Pleasant Green, tops St. Louis market with 35 Hereford steers averaging 1257 pounds, selling at $10.40. Wm. Schleuter, Lone Elm, sells 80 acres of unimproved farming land to Walter Brandes at $352 per acre. Revival meeting at Bunceton results in 50 conversions. Mr. and Mrs. P.C. Nuckols, of Boonville; celebrate golden wedding. Col. and Mrs. Ed Patterson, of Bunceton, celebrate golden wedding. Mr. and Mrs. C.W. Kirton, Boonville, celebrate silver wedding. Missouri Pacific Announces additional passenger train service on Boonville and Versailles branch.

Medical detachment of 128th field artillery formed in Boonville with Capt. P.A. Brickey in charge; 30 men mustered in. W. S. Paxton, Pilot Grove, tops St. Louis market with car load of 230-pound hogs selling at $7.50. Nixon & Marriott, Bunceton, top St. Louis market with 32 head of prime Shorthorn steers selling at $9.35. W.D. Cole, west of Bunceton, holds closing out sale totaling $2369, one span of mules sells for $447.50. Henry C. Neef heads Leonard Thoma Post No. 52, Boonville, American Legion, for 1924. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Mills, Boonville, and Mrs. and Mrs. Sam Mills, Clark’s Fork, celebrate 18th wedding anniversaries.

Weddings Milford B. Bruce, Wooldridge, and Yvonne Denning, Oklahoma City; Benj. Miller and Erdice C. Randolph, Blackwater; Allen E. Owen, Kirksville, and Etta Craig, Arrow Rock; Edwin Roy Wofford and Jennie Strain, Boonville, Eugene Wier, Memphis, Tenn., and Carroll Wilson, formerly of Boonville; Conrad Schupp, Pleasant Green, and Josephine Koontz, St. Louis, Swisher D. Cochran, Marshall, and Hazel Nadine Davis, Boonville; Russell Cramer and Lynne Drafffen, Lamine; Charles Bryan and Beulah Wilkerson, Otterville; Verner C. Langlotz and Pearlie A. Johnmeyer, Boonville; Clarence H. Diehl, Boonville, and Ida W. Honerbrink, Prairie Home; Henry Whitlow, of Blackwater, and

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Nellie Mercer, of Boonville, Herman W. Sidenburg, Clarinda, Iowa, and Emma W. Niebruegge, Bunceton.

Births Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Schwftzky, near Speed; daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Earl Stegner, Kansas City; son to Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hopkins, Wooldridge; daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Ottomar Kirschman, Prairie Home; son to Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Barnhart, Boonville; son to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Martin, Lamine; son to Mr. and Mrs. Auburn Baker, Lamine.

Deaths Henry W. Harris, 75, Sedalia; Mrs. Calla Rouse, 39, New Franklin; W.L. Stephens, 75, Versailles; Tolliver Barnett, 22, Lamine; James Edward Potter, 79, Clifton City; L. A. Crutchfield, Huntsville; Thelma Louse, 2-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Palmer, Otterville; Dr. W. C. Lewis, St. Louis; Mrs. Mattie McGuire, 78, Sulphur, Ky.; Dr. J.A. White, 82, New Franklin; H.A. Tucker, 30, formerly of Boonville, in San Francisco, Calif.; Mrs. Anna Neale, 47, Otterville; Leonard Albin, 5, near Lakota; Mrs. Arthur Kirkpatrick, Pilot Grove; Van Sims, 83, Kansas City, Kan.; Mrs. Barbour Ewing, 80, formerly of Cooper county, at Stockton, Calif.; Mrs. Sarah Callahan, 78, Bunceton; Anthony Back, 58, Boonville; Mrs. James Murphy, 28, near Billingsville; Robt. O. Broyles, 65, St. Louis, in Boonville, his former home.